I am the Zombie King of the Apocalyptic World
Chapter 1468 - 1463: The Recycling Envoy

Chapter 1468: Chapter 1463: The Recycling Envoy

"Level 9." Tang Ye answered.

Who knew, the woman’s gaze noticeably startled, and in the end, she actually said to Tang Ye: "Only Level 9, huh?"

Tang Ye turned his head, his gaze colliding with the woman’s, the meaning he wished to convey left her somewhat puzzled.

"What exactly do you mean?"

"Do you know at which stage zombies are referred to as the Zombie King?"

"Level 9?"

"Mhm."

"So you’re the Zombie King then?"

"Sort of."

"Sort of~ more or less~ pretty good~ eh~ is that your motto?"

The woman narrowed her eyes and teased Tang Ye in a playful tone, but after teasing, she continued to ask: "So, those of your kind that I encountered before, were they all Level 9?"

"No, at most they would be considered Level 8."

"I see, but that also makes sense. Otherwise, Dairya wouldn’t be changing scenes. It’s probably targeted at you; you’ve already posed a challenge to her." The woman nodded: "In that case, you should be somewhat stronger than my previous partners."

Tang Ye also nodded in agreement, everything the woman was saying matched his own conjectures.

"Anything else you want to ask?"

"Yes, but not now. You come with me first; we might need your help soon."

"To where?"

"Do you know what a body snatcher is?"

"What is that?"

"Someone who works specifically to collect corpses."

Upon hearing this, Tang Ye suddenly remembered those people he saw wearing black coats, and the words of the woman that followed verified this.

"It’s those people in black clothes. Whenever someone dies for violating the conduct statutes, their bodies are collected by them. They won’t appear if it’s a natural death."

"Mhm." Tang Ye responded, and thought again of today’s interaction at Martyrs’ Cemetery between the gravedigger and a few in black coats; their relationship seemed somewhat unusual. What did this imply?

After the woman mentioned she didn’t understand the gravedigger either, Tang Ye now considered the gravedigger of Martyrs’ Cemetery a point of interest.

"You haven’t seen them before, have you?"

"I have."

"It seems you were present at those body collections."

"Indeed."

"The place we’re going to now is the recycling station."

"I want to know what you’re going to do. Steal bodies?"

"You guessed it."

The woman showed Tang Ye an appreciative expression and then led him towards the west.

"Just walk over like this?"

"What else?"

"It’s a bit slow."

"Be patient, you have plenty of time, don’t worry, oh, right!"

The woman suddenly remembered something, looked around, and then walked towards the side of the street. Tang Ye followed her into a nearby alley, eventually finding what seemed to be a place used by a household exclusively for hanging laundry. The woman casually tore off a piece of clothing and came back out with Tang Ye, tearing it into strips of cloth, and then handed them to Tang Ye.

"What for?"

"Wrap it around yourself just like I did."

"What’s the point of doing this?"

"Right now, we’re about to do something criminal. If the police spot and recognize you, your life here will be all about hiding and seeking. You might not think it’s a big deal, but don’t you find it troublesome?"

"Police?"

"Not the police you are thinking of, but the recyclers. The real police won’t bother with you unless you breach the law."

Following the woman’s example, Tang Ye wrapped himself up so that only his eyes showed and asked, "You seem to know Xi River city well. Have you been here before?"

"You’re overthinking it. I’ve never been here. No matter how the scenery changes here, the recycling stations are generally in the west. As long as you have the right direction, you can basically find it."

"I see. Then I have a question: you mentioned that Xi River city exists because of Dairya targeting me, so what would happen if I left Xi River city?"

"That’s a question that only a kindergarten child would ask."

"Ever used a computer?"

"I get it now."

"As long as you understand. Everything you see here is loaded. If you are here, Xi River city exists. If you go somewhere else, other scenes and people will load automatically. It’s like a webpage. If you don’t click, it doesn’t exist. As soon as you click, it loads in the next second."

"So, everyone here is being controlled, and the information I get is only what Dairya wants me to know? Even you could be arranged by Dairya?"

"Don’t worry about that. As I said, Dairya is a Gemini entity. There are two Zombie Kings as you call them, but they are also one. However, their consciousnesses are independent, their desires are different, and so are their interests. Everyone here has their own consciousness. It’s just that their identities, memories, and names change according to the environment. You might be worried that everything you encounter is arranged, but rest assured about the information you receive."

"As for me... If you suspect me, I believe that nothing I say will help. I can only state that what you said might be right; I might indeed be controlled by Dairya, perhaps even without my own knowledge."

Tang Ye looked deeply at the woman and thought, "What exactly is she hiding?"

The two continued walking towards the west side of Xi River city. After nearly crossing the entire city, the woman finally stopped and pointed into the darkness ahead, "Do you see it?"

Tang Ye looked ahead and saw a building that wasn’t very tall but enormously large, surrounded by walls wrapped in electrified fences, sparking with arcs of electricity in the dark.

"Is that the recycling station?"

He asked a question. This so-called recycling station didn’t look like any recycling station but rather looked more like a prison for criminals!

"It is the recycling station," the woman confirmed.

"If you’ve never been to Xi River city before, how can you be sure that’s the recycling station ahead?"

"It’s easy to recognize. What do you think those things on the walls are?"

The woman pointed at the walls surrounding the recycling station. Tang Ye looked carefully and indeed noticed something different. When he first laid eyes on these walls, he hadn’t noticed anything amiss. But now, on closer inspection, he discovered that the walls weren’t built with regular reinforced concrete at all. Instead, canopies of walls were casting an eerie dark purple hue, with tentacle-like protrusions embedded within them, looking just like walls built from the flesh and blood of countless zombies!

The wall’s surface seemed to contract and expand as if a living creature was breathing, exuding a strong sense of evil, and with the nightfall, it intensified the desolation!

Its characteristics were similar to those shadowy figures in graffiti that he had seen; if you didn’t pay attention to them, it’d be as if you saw them and yet didn’t see them at the same time. You’d only discover them omnipresent if you intentionally sought them out!

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